News: High-rise Hotel in Ipoh Heritage Zone Met with Opposition

Nov 26, 2018

The proposed construction of a 14-storey hotel at the heart of Ipoh Old Town has been met with opposition from stakeholders, who believe that it could seriously damage the surrounding heritage buildings, reported The Star.

The developer plans to build the hotel at a private land in Jalan Sultan Idris Shah, or within the zone gazetted under the Ipoh Heritage Tin City Special Area Plan 2020.

“This land was gazetted for a plot ratio of 1:3:5, but the developer has applied to the council to amend it to 1:6:0 and the building height to 14 storeys,” said the stakeholders’ spokesman Lim Yi Wen in a forum at Old Town prior to the presentation of a memorandum to the state government.

“The purpose of the amendment is to build a high-rise hotel with an underground basement carpark.”